It uses Google’s speech to text. As far as you can tell it is a recorded message saying that it’s Google’s call screening system and to give your name and why you’re calling and voice to text to tell you what they say

Then when you hang up it says goodbye to them.

I think the product that was supposed to be AI was the booking assistant

On pixel phones the Android assistant can filter calls for you

It’s surprising when people follow the machine’s instructions and state who they are and why they are calling. It’s not a menu system, but it gets maybe the best 30% of the effect

• Cars
• Fossil fuels
• Combine harvesters (especially if you’re a small creature)

However, I would say when talking about Linux specifically, there is a high chance that people talking about stuff being broken are people breaking stuff.

I’m sure you’re right. It used to be complicated to set up printers, bluetooth, audio, but even then once set up they were fine. Now all those and just about anything else you need to manage on the machine has an easy GUI

My wife’s computer runs Linux and she’s never had to use a terminal (she’s not a techie type)

For the UDP broadcast, you should be able to catch and change them with simple firewall rules, you’d catch packets with a destination address of the broadcast address and send them to a chain that rewrites the destination

I use it and find it’s the fastest way to type on glass

It appears to work by matching the path your finger traces to likely words, it also works if you’re slightly off the letters

The biggest problems are errors like “if” and “of” that start right next to each other and finish the same, it also capitalises anything that is also a name and you need to select the uncapitalised version from the suggestions row

So throw an error at runtime on that macro, most workbooks aren’t the target of a macro

Fine for me too

They said ~/

I don’t think there’s any protection for the current user’s home directory

That’s a bit much, perhaps though they should use a real mode OS

Yeah, there’s a Debian implementation of GNU/hurd. Debian recommend you run it in a VM

The Linux kernel (the part that gives Linux the name) is antithetical to Linux philosophy? I could understand it being contrary to GNU philosophy

Dude, I have a job I enjoy, and I wake like that some days

Sure, but that’s not VPN action, it’s routing or filtering

Sure, but that’s not generally a thing the commercial VPNs offer, and I thought we were talking about commercial VPNs

But my cohort had Watership Down

Described recently as the best example of cosmic horror/literary irony

Dream a dream

And mouse to top right for me. With windows is usually the users who screw up, the worst of the product itself is that it advertises at you

If Linux had the bulk of users we’d be seeing idiot things users installed on Mint

They hide your browsing from your ISP (and probably your government)

They hide your origin and substitute another for web sites.

I’d say a VPN is only useful to people engaging in crime, or things that look like crime and those buying services that are priced differently around the world

That provide no protection against things you might click on

Win+L? Ok session locked